Birds of prey
Few birds inspire awe as often as birds of prey, those athletic aerial predators that rule the roost when it comes to the food chain.
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Learning Through Nature
As someone who learns best through doing, the past couple of months in my trainee role at Northumberland Wildlife Trust have proved very valuable as the first step in my career in the conservation…
Identify birds of prey
The UK is home to a variety of birds of prey - predatory birds equipped with sharp talons and hooked bills. This page will help you identify common birds of prey as well as some rarer species.
The ospreys are back!
It never really quite feels like spring is really here to me until I start thinking seriously about ospreys, and the coming months. The returning ospreys signal the start of one of our most…
Help wildlife in the hot weather
Help wildlife in hot weather and lend a helping hand. Keep your watering stations topped up with water, and let some of your garden grow wild to provide shade for animals.
Remember wildlife now the weather is hot
With the hot weather this week, Northumberland Wildlife Trust is urging members of the public not to let wildlife wilt in the heat as they reach for their sun cream and ice lollies.
Wintry weather doesn’t stop Whitelee work
Northumberland Wildlife Trust has been busy on its Whitelee Moor reserve, despite the arrival of the wet wintry weather.
Kielder Ospreys
For many years ospreys were seen passing through Kielder without stopping, always on the way north to more long-standing nesting sites in Scotland. As more and more of the best nesting spots were taken, it was just a matter of time before they stayed south of the border. To encourage this, Forestry England installed a number of platforms around the forest after a failed attempt to nest by two young birds in 2008. This paid off, as following an absence of about 200 years in Northumberland, ospreys returned to nest at Kielder in 2009.
Ospreys return to Kielder Water and Forest Park
Ospreys have returned to nest in the forests of Kielder Water & Forest Park for the twelfth year in a row. And whilst it is just another season for the ospreys it is a year unlike any other…
Exciting osprey news from Kielder
Following a slow start to the Kielder Water & Forest Park osprey season, hampered by the Beast from the East, the breeding season is well underway with three eggs in each of the four nests.…
News and publications
Northumberland Wildlife Trust - News and publications (News, Blog, Publications, E-news)
Hot weather continues to affect nature reserves
The hot weather, although glorious, is having an effect on Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s 60 reserves, resulting in staff receiving telephone calls from concerned members of the public.